Real Gabinete Portugues de Leitura, Rio
The Manueline cathedral of the Portuguese book – carved galleries soaring to a stained skylight, the largest Lusophone collection outside Portugal.
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Published on beniculturalionline.it, the Italian archive of this publication, online since 1998. They are being brought into Cultural Heritage Online.
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- Le performance di beniculturalionline.it
- Scrivania Nomos 1984 c.
- Carrello contenitore BOBY di Joe Colombo, 1970
- Washstand, 1904
- Sgabello Mezzadro, 1957
- Poltrona Joe, 1970
- Sedia a dondolo - UOVO modello Nu00b0 267
- Panchina, 1906-1914 c. in stile Art Nouveau
- Jaguar E-Type
- Poltrona Barcelona - Mies van der Rohe
Biblioteca Palafoxiana, Puebla
The Americas’ first public library – Bishop Palafox’s 1646 gift shelved in cedar baroque, UNESCO Memory of the World in Puebla’s listed heart.
Library of Parliament, Ottawa
The chapter-house of Canadian democracy – the Gothic rotunda that alone survived Parliament’s 1916 fire behind its iron doors, queen of the ten-dollar bill.
State Library Victoria, Melbourne
The octagonal dome of the south – 1913’s largest concrete dome over radiating desks, Ned Kelly’s armour in the galleries, the lawn’s student commons before.
National Library of Finland, Helsinki
Engel’s temple of the word beside the white cathedral – Corinthian halls and the Rotunda’s iron rings, the nation’s memory in Empire dress.
Melk Abbey Library, Austria
The golden library of the Danube’s rock – Prandtauer’s baroque crown over the Wachau, where Umberto Eco’s narrator took his name.
Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City
The megabiblioteca’s floating stacks – Kalach’s suspended steel shelves around a whale skeleton’s grey ghost, reading’s science-fiction cathedral.
Tianjin Binhai Library, China
The Eye of Binhai – MVRDV’s terraced book-canyon around a mirrored sphere, the internet’s most famous library interior.
Passage Pommeraye, Nantes
The three-tiered stair of commerce – France’s most theatrical arcade, lamp-bearing statues guarding the climb the Surrealists adored.
Galeries Royales Saint-Hubert, Brussels
Europe’s first grand glazed gallery – omnia omnibus over chocolate’s holy mile, where Neuhaus invented the praline beneath the glass sky.